FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1945
Home Gardens Can Fill
World-Wide Shortages
Home vegetable production, pat
terned after America's Victory
Gardens, will provide the best
answer to Europe's postwar food
problem, Dr. Warren B. Mack of
the College believes.
"It's the fastest way to get food,
while still enlisting the efforts of
the needy people themselves," he
said.
Dr. Mack, who is head of the
department of horticulture and
also • executive secretary of the
State Council of Defense Victory
Garden Committee, exnlained that
the plan already has proved suc
cessful in North Africa and the
South Pacific.
Pointing out that spot produc
tion of food would eliminate the
grave problems of transportation
and distribution, the expert said
vegetables not only provide the
greatest variety of essential die
tary needs, but also can be raised
quickly.
Many vegetables, such as spin
ach, leaf lettuce, mustard greens,
and radishes, are ready for the
table 30 days after planting, he
added, while others, like turnips,
beets, and snap beans, require
only 45 days.
Chi Phi will entertain the fac
ulty at a tea in their house on the
corner of Hamilton and Garner
streets Sunday afternoon,
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A Day With The. Navy V-12
I joined the Navy last week
The idea was Lieut. Commdi
Navy V-112 unit at the College,
would "join the Navy" and go t
with the V-12, his story would g
°Er the Navy at Penn State.
Thereupon, the unit storekeep•
er outfitted me with the regula
tion uniform and detailed instruc•
tions about fastening the 14 but•
tons into the 1.5 buttonholes founr
on Navy trousers and at 7 p. m
I reported for duty to Barracks
13, formerly the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity house on campus.
A/S Bill Mullins, house leader
of Barracks 13, welcomed me at
the door. "Glad to have you on
board. You stand watch from 2 to
4 a. m. tomorrow morning," he
said. •
At 7:30 p. m. muster, or roll
call, was taken on, the main deck
(first floor) at which time Mul
lins read out the work assign
ments for the next morning. My
job was to clean the second deck
companionway (corridor) I was
beginning to feel as if I were in
the Navy.
My bunk was on the third deck
in a long, spotless room called
"the dormitory." There was a cot,
table, chair, and bureau for each
man.
The sailors in the dormitory re-
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presented a cross-section of the
United States. Apprentice sea
men Dick Light and Bob Gernand
are
. from Indiana, Hoyle J. (IRed)
Welch, Calvin Overcash; and
Dana Belser from the sunny
southland, and Joe Gebhardt
from Wilkes-Barre. In the section
al discussion that took place the
lone Pennsylvanian was outnum
bered but held up his own end.
•
When the boy„ had been study
ing the following day's assign
ments for about an hour, the
shout, "Sally's on board," was
heard. We all went dowh and
bought ice cream and milk to see
us through the remaining study
hours. To be ouite truthful, we
did not study all the time, but
took ten minute breaks to bull
session about football and other
sports. .
Suddenly a sound that can be
described only as the wail of a
disgruntled banshee pierced the
barracks. It was the fire gong.
Fellows just disappeared down
the stairs. Precisely one and one
half minutes later several trai
nees had each manned his fire
station and the remainder of the
74 men in Barracks 13 had been
checked on the main deck. The
fire drill was over.
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"Lights out," in • the barracks
was at 11 p. m. and everyone "hit
the sack." After •what seemed to
be five minutes sleep, I was a
wakened by the Junior Watch
Officer, A/S Clayton . Richmond.
I hated him for a while, then
dressed and went down to the
main deck to relieve him.
The Junior Watch Officer is
responsible for the orotection of
the barracks during his two hour
duty. He makes . Periodic inspec
tions for unneccessary lights, op
en windows and doorS, and fire,
and enters his findings in - a log
book. I performed these duties
with one sleepy eye on the clock
and at 4 o'clock woke up my re
lief, A/S Overcarsh.
The Navy usually wakes up at
6 a. in. and falls ou.t for a few
minutes of murderous calisthen
ics. It was raining in the morn
ing; therefore the gong gave the
boys 15 minutes extra sleep. No
one griped at missing calisthen
ics.
During the next few minutes
the barracks was filled with trai
nees washing, shaving, dressing,
making bunks, cleaning and
straightening up rooms, and
Mon. "Enemy Of Women"
Claudia Drake, Donald Woods
Tues. "Princess- and the Pirate"
Bob • Hope, Virginia Mayo
"Escape In The Fog"
William Wright, Nina Foch
Thurs. "To Have And Have Not"
,Huraphrey Bogart, Lakuren Bacall
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Trainees Line Up for Inspection
"Hollywood Canteen"
"UTAH"
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
sweeping decks and companion
ways. Then we marched to Mac-
Allister hall 'for a man-sized
breakfast of bacon, cereal, stewed
rhubarb, buns, bread and butter,
milk and an apple: I ate with a
group of sailors who called them
selves 'Gaffers Inc. They said it
was a select dining club, but it
looked like any other table.
Classes followed. The V-12 was
set up to provide a continuous
supply of officer candidates for
the Navy. To prepare for this the
trainees attend regular college
classes for a varying number of
semesters, depending upon their
previous education. At 11 o'clock
we went to a Navy • practicum
course taught by Lieut. (j. g.) •A.
B. Kimball who lectured 'and de
monstrated flag signalling.
Back at the barracks the trai
(Continued on pay-e :,even)
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Sadden to Represent
X-6-I Club at Meeting
John Sadden will represent tho
X-G-I Club at the National Vet
erans Council Association meet•
ing at Temple University in Phil
adelphia, May 12,
X-G-I's from many eastern col
leges and universities will atten4
this meeting to discuss noliciea
concerning the ex-servicemen in
College and his relationships with
his professors and fellow students.
Campus X-G-I's will elect a
vice-commander, an adjutant, aft
ncnce officer, and a chaplain at
their next meeting, May 14.
Parmi Nous members initiattAl
Vaughn Stapleton at their ,last:
meeting.
State, Cathaum to Show
Stirring, Short Film
Featuring an unusual cast head
ed by Andrea King, Warren Dou
glas, Charles Drake, William
Forrest and Arthur Hohl,
Happened •in Springfield," ab
sorbing Warner Bros. short sub
ject written and directed by
Crane Wilbur, makes its first lai—
cal appearance on the Cathauan
screen on Friday and Saturday
and at the State on Monday, Tu
esday nd Wednesday. Produced
by Gordon Hollingshead, and
filmed with the cooperation ofe
the Springfield, Massachusetts,
Board of Education, this exciting
picture goes behind the scenes ore
a small American town to show
what could happen if Nazi-inspi
red hate propaganda ever took
hold. Tracing the workings of tho
famous "Springfjeld Plan" of ov.•
eryday democracy, the picture re•
veals the current need . for
straight fhinking on the part of
every American citizen. A dv.
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